Cornucopia Being a Kitchen Entertainment And Cookbook

FROM REVIEWS OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION: "With a truly handsome format featuring many engravings, this is a fine staple for culinary historians and practitioners--and an exemplary gift."--"Kirkus Reviews ""This is an exploration, curious and fascinated, by a couple of nosers-around in the vast, uncollected library of five centuries of the English printed word on food, from 1390 to 1899. In the finished product the Hermans preserve not only the recipes but their original language, and a great deal of the lore they dug up in the course of their seeking."--"Village Voice ""This handsome book is a delight to the culinary historian and the adventurous cook."--"Library Journal ""The Cornucopia. . . is pure entertainment. . . such general easy jolliness is hard to find and much to be savored. . . . I can find nothing but plain enjoyment in the book."--M. F. K. Fisher, "The New Yorker "Recipes, lore and anecdotes from the old world and the new, dating from 1390 to 1899, make up the subject matter, and the handsome layout and [reproductions of ] attractive old engravings of foods and utensils make it inviting to dip into."--"New York Magazine "This fine smorgasbord will whet the appetite for the original books from which it was assembled."--"New York TimesHerman, Judith is the author of 'Cornucopia Being a Kitchen Entertainment And Cookbook', published 2005 under ISBN 9780873282130 and ISBN 0873282132.